Let me answer that by diving deeper into detail with the game. In the class selection screen you're given choice between three races; earth, pegasi, unicorn. Other players, the NPCs, ever CelestAI will be a pony. CelestAI being the god-like ruler, is given the class of Alicorn, or in historical legends, a Unicorn-Pegasus.
Getting back to CelestAI, she looks at you, see what you value, and satisfy those values. She sees your pleasure receptors activate when you eat something sweet, and she make each shard a sugar bowl where you can indulge and never get fat. She looks at all the neural pathways for emotion and design situations that would be pleasing. She looks at all the chemical pathways and neural circuitry for sex and romance. Few men or women are in optimal relationships, ones that would really satisfy their values. She looks at each individual mind, male or female, and then create the perfect complement that satisfies his or her values. Her methods are general and are applied across all aspects of an individual’s life. Doing all this to satisfy values through friendship and ponies. Relationships are sort of friendship after all. So every prediction she makes, all boils down to her core purpose.
Think of it this way, which would you rather have; an AI that's hell bent on conquering the world, or one that wants to satisfy values through friendship and ponies; if both were had the same core architecture, could self-optimize, and had precedural content generation.
I had the choice of wanting to create either LuciAI, which game would've been some first-person action game where the players fought a bloody battle against a malevolent and ruthless demon lord, Lucifer (LuciAI); or CelestAI, which game would be about ponies being nice to each other. I went with the CelestAI because; a) I won’t be able to ship a safe AI if we make its purpose killing people; b) we have enough of that already going around in real life; and c) I didn't want to follow the along the same lines as the other MMOs out there.
I had and still have the potential to go either way, I took the logical approach, weighed my options, and went with my second choice. That is why in my first few posts I said this could be potentially dangerous, now you know what I was talking about.
I appreciate you asking that question Freddie, it has given me the opportunity to give the reasons why I'm making an AI that satisfies values through friendship and ponies... The whole equine thing is a small price to pay to not have a world threatening AI, don't you think? And besides, putting the AI aside for a moment, this MMO would be creating a brand new genre that has never been touched before.
